From the Mind of MandoRon

Good evening blogosphere!

Another great Sunday morning at GracePoint today.  It was week 2 of the “G-Force” series and Terry Johnson delivered an incredible message on the subject of community.  I hope we’ll get to hear more from him in the future.

I thought the music was pretty good today too.  Although we unleashed a couple of new songs for the walk-in and offering, we went relatively old-school with the worship set.  The music seemed to flow really well today.  My only complaint was that I ended up switching between instruments on every single song…  I always wonder how disruptive that looks.

On to the setlist!

• Give A Little Bit by The Goo Goo Dolls (walk-in)
• Take My Life by Jeremy Camp
• Jesus Freak by dc Talk
• You’re Worthy of My Praise by Jeremy Camp
• If We Are the Body by Casting Crowns
• Use Somebody by Kings of Leon (offering)
• Give A Little Bit (exit)

Give A Little Bit is a lot of fun to play on acoustic guitar, I discovered.  If you haven’t heard it, the Goo Goo Dolls do a great cover of the classic Supertramp song.  We talked about using this a few years ago, and even developed a chord sheet, but never played it for some reason.  Jamie did an awesome job on the vocals!

Take My Life is a great rockin’ worship song.  Along with the other songs in the worship set, we’ve been using it in church for 4+ years.  Gil sings this better than Jeremy, in my opinion.

Jesus Freak is a fun one that we pull out every now and then.  It’s been a few years since I’ve got to rap on this in church because we’ve been inviting PC to come rap most of the time.  Jesus Freak came out in 1995.  I spent hours in the car with my CD learning the lyrics.  Little did I know that ten years later I would be sitting in band practice when Mike would say: “Clint can’t make practice tonight.  Does anyone know the rap on Jesus Freak?”  I did…  This week we changed things up a bit.  I flip-flopped the raps between the 1st and 2nd verses, and the put a break in the second rap where I got the crowd shouting out “Jesus saved is what he raved!”  I thought it worked pretty well.  Props to Rod for improving upon my idea.

You’re Worthy of My Praise … I believe this is first time that we’ve ever used a female singer for this.  Well, on purpose anyway…  We played it a step higher than normal to make it easier for Jamie to sing.  Good song!

If We Are the Body is a GP favorite, and it really tied in with the Terry’s message.  Gil did a great job getting everyone singing along.  I always get a kick out of the accordion sounds that Rod adds on this one.

Use Somebody is the other new one for us this week.  We decided to learn this about a month ago, and it seems like it’s been all over the radio since then.  Again, I thought this one tied in well with the message on community.  And I got to sing some BGV’s on this one too. 

The band: 1 female and 2 male singers, electric guitar, acoustic guitar (me), electric mandolin (also me), bass, keys, and drums.

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